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The quote posts by my wonderful friends are evidence that even the most skilled artists may be incapable of capturing the genuine horrors of reality.

I did not spend four years of art school with a bunch of graphic design spaghetti nerds debating the same four arguments to death to then waste my life on such discourses as a grown adult.

Uh oh I see the corpse of “art vs. the artist” discourse has been exhumed online once again which means that “what is appropriation” arguments cannot be far behind.

Love Pokopia because I can make everyone happier simply by crafting things out of sticks and leaves.

Pokopia was worth every dollar.

Looking at my country and…
- Concentration camps
- Wars no one asked for
- Whiteness and compulsory gender conformity becoming conditions of mobility
- A demagogue spouting hate and lies constantly
We’ve officially spiraled into full Nazi Germany territory. We are the bad guys in the history books.

i think about this strip daily.

Celebrities Alan Moore adelanto Muchachada Nuí YouTube video by MrSkywalkerReturns

Picture if you will with me for a moment, young @hirosemary.bsky.social and myself laughing our asses off in the MCAD Comics Studio while watching this niche Spanish sketch comedy segment about Alan Moore. No one else thinks its funny but us. youtu.be/OoRoE8DeQxc?...

Peepee poo poo butts

Cover art for “Beetle Moses: a Comics Menagerie”, the debut comic collection from beetle moses.

My debut book of comics is officially LIVE for PREORDER!

A drawing of Astro Boy smoking a cigarette, circled by the words “Comics are read by delinquents!”

Forced myself to crank out a sticker for an upcoming convention, just to have one new thing! I’ll probably keep redrawing rude Astro until the day I die.

A drawing of Astro Boy in sunglasses with the words “Comics Are Read by Delinquents!” It is clearly an older drawing compared to the one in the prior post.

Here is the original Rude Astro design, which was taken from several years of drawing Rude Astro in my sketchbooks, often flipping the bird.

A drawing of Astro Boy smoking a cigarette, circled by the words “Comics are read by delinquents!”

Forced myself to crank out a sticker for an upcoming convention, just to have one new thing! I’ll probably keep redrawing rude Astro until the day I die.

New Mitski??? 👁️👄👁️

Coffee bags, one is Tom of Finland with a Tom of Finland image on it. The other is Moomin with a Moomin leaning on a blueberry. More details: in the photograph of two "Art Roast" coffee bags on the shelf of a store with prices in euros. One of the bags is large and black and says HEAVY DUTY dark roast coffee beans, exclusive blend by Robert [I can't read it, it's in script]. The other is blue and says Blueberry coffee.

ah yes, the two genders

help, it’s again

They’re so gorgeous but kill my wallet and shelves.

In the story of Humpty Dumpty it is never said that he is an egg. However, it is never said that he is NOT an egg. This means that any character in ANY story could be an egg unless explicitly stated otherwise. Keep that in mind when you read a Jack Reacher novel

More of a DC guy, but 10 of my Marvel Faves!

Daredevil
Thor
Magneto (evil)
Doom
Invisible Woman
Nico Minoru
Batroc ze Leaper
Wolverine with no pants on in the snow
Johnny Storm with the damn mustache
Volstagg the Voluminous

If I wanted ChatGPT’s response, I would have asked ChatGPT and not the sentient human I’m communicating with who is capable of independent thought.

The Captain Underpants continuum dictates that you can’t draw him too realistic or it is just a creepy guy in his underwear instead of a delightful cartoon character.

Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

DC’s Compact Comics would also be fun to teach in the classroom, but my students (in the intermediate reading bracket who likely left off their freshman year of high school) aren’t quite ready for something like V for Vendetta and the rest are a bit less general interest.

Love those but 1) out of print, 2) pretty time and editor specific samplings. I’m now trying to find a single anthology that has a nice representative sampling of content, but again it’s a harder challenge than I expected.

I like to describe myself as the Alan Moore of middle grade graphic novels for iPad babies.

The cover of An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories with original art by Dan Clowes featuring a romance comics scenario, a Martian flying through space, and a bald guy punching.

Well I found what I was looking for with An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories but it’s woefully out of print. Now on the hunt for an anthology that’s a representative sample of contemporary comics.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Cover of the Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story edited by John Freeman with an illustration of a tornado touching down in a field.

It would be great to have one book with excerpts from the classics like Maus, Persepolis, and Love and Rockets. Hell toss in an EC Comic or two like “The Master Race.” I just bought a classroom set of The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story for similar purposes of teaching short fiction.